I thought that Friday’s unexpected flurry of snow would have thawed out overnight. Although it didn’t snow during saturday the snow lingered making the roads in places quite treacherous.

In the early hours of sunday morning snow started to fall again and didn’t stop for nearly 24 hours. We haven’t seen this much snow for many a year and even when it has snowed it has thawed by mid morning. Not so on this occasion.

Layers of December Snow

I waited a while to see if the sun would melt the snow from my car. I eventually decided to take action and try to remove the snow. I started off with a soft brush, several of my neighbours had used this technique, but I found it rather laborious and not very effective. I resorted to putting a plastic food bag over my glove and scraping the snow off by hand and when I was able to unearth the boot of my car I opened it to retrieve my ice scraper!

There was six inches of snow on the top of my car and several inches on the bonnet so it took me quite some time to remove it. I couldn’t remove it all, the lower layer was ice and the temperature dropped causing the windows to gain a frosty layer.

I had intended to have a go at Mr C’s car too, but I ran out of light and the temperature dropped causing the cars to freeze over again.

I can’t resist sharing a few more snowy garden photographs with you :-)

December Snow

December Snow

December Snow

December Snow

December Snow

20 Comments CherryPie on Dec 11th 2017

20 Responses to “Six Inches Deep”

  1. Ayush says:

    i liked your documentation of the two cars and all the snowy shots, especially the last one with the bend in the road, CP

  2. I would guess snow is rare

  3. Hels says:

    Australia changed over from Imperial to Metric on the 14th Feb 1966. Nonetheless I still remember how big 6″ is… because my hand span was 7″ back then.

    I am not sure if living in snow is comfortable, but your last photo does look very romantic.

    • CherryPie says:

      We converted to Metric around the same time. But imperial measurements are embedded in my brain and they are more logical so I continue to use them ;-)

  4. lisl says:

    You really have caught it this year, Cherie. My grandson saw his first snow in Malvern, and I have put a picture of him in wonderment on shutterchance today. Nice set of pictures

  5. sigrun says:

    Just beautiful – winterpictures with snow. I love them. We had also snow, a lot, but after two days it was green again in the garden.

    Sigrun

  6. As I’ve got to get to work tomorrow I’m kind of wishing I’d cleared the snow off my car this afternoon. Ah well… :D

  7. The Yum List says:

    Oh, my goodness!! That’s quite a difference to the temperatures over here at the moment.

    • CherryPie says:

      It is winter over here, but this amount of snow was unexpected. It has not snowed like this for many years.

      It is very localised, other parts of the country have had hardly any snow!

  8. James Higham says:

    The BBC tweeted that it was -15 in Shropshire, lowest in the country on Tuesday. Brrrrrr.

    • CherryPie says:

      I saw that it was -13 at Shawbury which is out in the countryside. I live closer to a small town and with houses around giving of heat which provides a micro climate so thankfully the temperature was much warmer than -15

  9. So much snow!
    We got less than an inch of snow here in London. :(

  10. shabana says:

    this year weather is unexpected most often all over the world as temperature is dropping and rising like mad and sudden rains and then sun ,weather seems to be confused

    i am glad that the plastic bag helped you enough to clear your car atleast

    thank you for sharing these awesome photos these are so charming to look at

    • CherryPie says:

      There are several studies that suggest we might be in the lead up to a mini ice age all with different theories behind them.

      I am glad you enjoyed the photographs :-)